A Woman Was Denied Medication for Being of ‘Childbearing Age.’ She Just Sued the Hospital

If doctors (or pharmacists) want the choice to impose their own religion on their patients, then at minimum need need to disclose that before ever meeting a patient. Additionally it would disqualify them from accepting any patients that are subsidized with taxpayer money.

This could act like the Surgeon General's warning on a pack of cigarettes:

WARNING: this physician acts with their own religion in mind before your well being. This could be a danger to your health.

Even worse then the headline...

One of the nurses started calling other hospitals lying about what happened, and even found the patient on Facebook and messaged her partner

She knows has to travel outside of the state to get appointments

Holy fucking Handmaid's Tale.

"Your womb is worth more than you."

I hope they take his license after the insurance companies drop him.

Albany Medical Health Partners is who she's suing.
The specific hospital was Glenn's Falls.
For anyone wondering.

Damn, unbelievable this shit is still happening. It was outrageous then, it's just barbaric now.

Canadian here...fucking crazy down there...

Glens falls hospital is a toilet with entire floors that are abandoned. They don't even have fans for the women in the birthing center because "people keep stealing them" according to the staff so all this horribly hot summer, women that are about to have or just had a baby have to sit in a pool of sweat with no moving air in their rooms. It cost several thousand a day to stay there, but they can't provide $20 desk fans.

This kind of shit makes me sad every time I see it. Unbelievable the lengths some women have to go to get the medication they need. I am so tired of these types of doctors.

This sort of thing has been common practice since long before Dobbs. And it is usually motivated by the doctor's fear of getting sued over birth defects, especially if there is an alternative prescription that is not known to be associated with birth defects. And there almost always is an alternative.

Next week: drinking age for women raised to 50, just in case.

I suspect that such decisions are being driven by fear of tort liability WAY more than any religious or social beliefs of the medical practitioners. I’m not trying to argue in favor of denying women needed medical treatment in any way, shape, or form—it’s just that my lawyer senses are tingling, and I wonder if this is an area where Doctors are overall more likely to get sued if they offer the treatment than deny the treatment. Any MDs in here want to offer a more informed opinion of what the F is going on with such denial of care situations?

I'm surprised this happened in NY. That's the kind of BS you'd expect elsewhere.

This is so fucked up.

Good. They need to be sued.

I have chronic pain. I also have the privilege of being male, so I do not have to go through what she went through, but I would probably not make it out of it alive considering how severe my pain is and what I tried to do about it once before.

I agree with the points made in this article, but I don't think they did due diligence in reporting on what doctors or hospitals blacklisted her and why. I'd like to know the reasoning behind why she was denied treatment everywhere locally. I suspect that there's an interesting story there.

What is the medicine in question? Any other MD (or better, neurologist) here? As far as I know, most of the standard treatment for cluster headaches are safe for pregnant women...

At this point I'm just becoming more and more convinced violence is the answer. We need to start going after these people.

I don't care how that sounds.

Wouldn't contraceptives be an even better protection?

You can't have birth defects if you're never conceived *taps head*

Under his eye.

Good

https://www.glensfallshospital.org/about/about-us/contact-us

I feel for her, but this feels shady as hell. Never mentions the drug, which could be because if people knew, they'd look into it and possibly side against her. Then add she's a TikTok'r and "content creator" which means all these clicks into her are making her a lot of money.

The FDA mandates that such drugs are only dispensed to patient with evidence of pregnancy testing and contraception use. (Which is IMHO common sense to require.)

I did not find information if the woman did a pregnancy test and used a reliable contraceptive.

(irony): if nobody ever thinks about future tax payers and slaves forced to work for minimum wages (in the "rich" countries that even have minimum wages) how are we expecting western society to sustain itself? This is horrible and reveals how we are treated as captive animals by our "shepherds".